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Self-reported symptoms of pain and depression in primary fibromyalgia syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis.
By Carl Eduard Scheidt, et al.
Background: Primary fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is associated with substantial psychiatric comorbidity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the interrelationship between self-reported symptoms of depression and pain in FMS compared with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with FMS and 50 patients with RA were compared with regard to depression and psychopathology using the Symptom Check List (SCL-27). Group comparisons were calculated by parametric and non-parametric tests. The association between pain intensity and depression was determined by correlation analyses and multivariate statistical procedures (CATREG).
Results: Pain intensity was significantly higher in FMS compared with RA. FMS patients also scored significantly higher on all subscales of the SCL-27 including the depression scale and the General Symptom Index (GSI) (P < 0.001). These group differences remained stable even after correcting for pain intensity. Correlation analyses revealed an association between pain intensity and depression in FMS but not in RA (R = 0.419, P < 0.001).
Conclusion: FMS patients in tertiary referral centers suffer from higher levels of pain intensity than RA patients. Depression predicts levels of pain in FMS but not in RA and is therefore an important target of intervention.
Source: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, April 16, 2013. By Carl Eduard Scheidt, Juliane Mueller-Becsangèle, Kristina Hiller, Armin Hartmann, Sigune Goldacker, Peter Vaith, Elisabeth Waller and Michael Lacour. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany.

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I did some recent work to trim down the memory use of mailinator. This was more of an optimizing exercise than any sort of impending need (its really running cheaper than it ever has
and the recent spam surge really hasnt really affected much).
I noticed many emails with some real useless porn emails in them. Now mind you, I am not out to block (legal) porn - that's not mailinator's job. But I wouldn't mind getting rid of some emails that no one reads or are clearly unsolicited spam. Check out Joe's mailbox for example - its rather random what you'll get at this very moment, but chances are, there will be some pr0n.
Most people from what I know use mailinator to sign up for stuff, not to peruse random porn spam and click the links. So I ran some stats on my subject line filter. Basically it rejects any email with a given word in the subject line. After running 12hours here's the stats for the words I've tested. Basically, each word is followed by how many emails that came into the system with that word in the subject. Note in this particular 12hours we received 2,021,175 total emails.
Badwords total counts:
explicit: 54789
viagra: 49057
c*m: 5761
f*ck: 23297
c*ck: 10686
hardc: 5063
p*ssy: 8306
schoolgi: 1823
porn: 1477
porrn: 395
cialis: 16653
teen: 9070
Note that "explicit" is found in emails tagged as "sexually-explicit" which basically says "I'm unsolicited porn spam".


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Charles E. Reeves, Sr.
Charles E. Reeves, Sr., age 65, of Malvern passed away Monday, January 28, 2013
at HSC Medical Center. He was born October 14, 1947, in Malvern, the son of Clarence and Gladys Robertson Reeves. Charles was a member and Deacon at Cooper Assembly of God and co-teacher of the Sanctuary Sunday School Class. He was an avid St. Louis Cardinal's and Razorback fan; he also loved to go fishing and hunting. Other than his parents, his brother, Ralph Reeves precedes him in death.
Left to cherish his memory, wife, of 41 years, who he married on June 5, 1971, Mary Cranford Reeves; son, Dr. Chuck Reeves, Jr. (Kathy) of Hot Springs; daughter, Magan Lapp (Keith) who are Missionaries in Taipei City, Taiwan; sister, Ruby Kimbrell of Harp; grandchildren, Kailey Reeves, Molly Reeves, Elliot Lapp, and one expected in May; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Friday, February 1 from 6:00-8:00pm at Regency Funeral Home.
Funeral Service will be Saturday, February 2 at 10:00am at Cooper Assembly of God Church with Reverend Mark Ohms officiating. Interment will be at Big Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Kimbrell, James Cranford, Monroe Cranford, Shane Cranford, Charlie Cranford, Kenny Cranford, Benji Cranford, and Chris Cranford. Honorary Pallbearers are Tonya Kimbrell, Brenda Garner, Tammy Cloud, Atrese Cranford, Edie Kimbrell, Gary Garner, Shawn Cloud, Freda Cranford, Kayla Cranford, Daniel Felts, and Tom Bynum. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Cooper Assembly of God Church, 1436 Cooper Road, Malvern, AR 72104.
Arrangements are by Regency Funeral Home. You may sign the guest book at www.regencyfuneralhome.com.


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I don't know how they do it, but the prognosticators at the Farmers' Almanac were right again this winter. Back in August they predicted:
"The eastern half of the country will see plenty of cold and snow. We predict that real winter weather will return to areas from the Great Lakes into the Northeast. Most eastern states — as far south as the Gulf Coast — will see snowier than normal conditions and cooler temperatures. We are 'red flagging' February 12-15 and March 20-23 for major coastal storms along the Atlantic seaboard; storms bringing strong winds and heavy precipitation."
No one knows if the farmers-in-the-know examine crop patterns or animal scat, sunspots or phases of the moon. Their process is secret but their record is impressive. After a warmer-than-usual winter last year, they said winter would return with a vengeance in the Northeast in 2013, and it did.
The National Weather Service, which bases its forecasts on the most advanced meteorological technology, pretty much got the winter all wrong. And neither agency can hold a candle to my mother, whose knees told her back in October that a bad winter was coming.
This year, of course, the meteorological outlier was Superstorm Sandy. Many weather experts have said it was a once-in-100-years confluence of meteorological circumstances that produced the devastating tidal surges and winds of Oct. 29 and 30. We all know people who are permanently displaced, people who are rebuilding homes, those who have lost all the tangible memories of their lives. Caleb Weatherbee, the almanac's weather guru, announced on Oct. 26 that he had been wrong about a "fair" forecast and that a monster hurricane was heading for the Northeast.
Sandy was followed by a tough winter, but there have been worse. Remember the Great Snow of 1717? Four storms left the Northeast under four feet of snow, and there were drifts up to 25 feet high. And that was before snowblowers. The Washington and Jefferson Snowstorm of 1772 trapped both men in their homes under three feet of the white stuff. In 1922, the Knickerbocker Storm dumped more than two feet of snow on D.C., collapsing the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater and killing 100 people.


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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:53 pm
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I think your comic works okay with 1 panel per page, especially since you have your navigation buttons at the top as well as the bottom, which makes it easy to move to the next page, just keep the mouse where it is, over the next button, and click when ready.
You could as an alternative stack several panels on top of each other (you've maybe tried this) so the reader could scroll down and enjoy reading a sequence, but this takes away the "framing" effect that each panel currently enjoys.
Boils down to personal choice, I think.
I throw individual panels into my browser and let the browser arrange them for me, then take a .jpg snapshot of the whole page for uploading to display sites. No one else seems to do this, so I'm probably not the one to ask about rules for paneling, but I'll be interested in other replies, I'm always looking for a smarter/faster way to do things.
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@dpat - I think I like your idea quite a bit. It wouldn't work for me (at least in this project) but it accounts for different monitor sizes pretty nicely. But it does look a bit odd since blankspace can creep up when the panels are
different heights
As for my process: My general rule is to average about six panels per page. This isn't a hard rule since it's an average, so I often go over that.
First and foremost, I plan out how I want the panels laid as I'm putting the script together. I'll write a whole chapter, then once it's done, go back through the file and label which dialogue I want together in a panel and how big the panel should be. (I have pretty generic notes for sizes, like basic, lrg, split top/bot, full (page), etc. Then after that, I go through
and logically split them into pages.
Planning is really important for me, but sometimes what I plan doesn't actually work once I start putting the page together. Just having that plan is enough to get things off the ground though.
I use Manga Studio 4 EX, and the panel layer with the panel cutter tool makes it really easy to make panels and adjust them.
I tend to cut across first, using the gridlines and space them about six boxes from the center. For the vertical cuts, I typically only have one section that cuts across the center - the reason being that I think different panel sizes helps keep the layout more interesting. How each section is cut depends on what the panel is going to look like though.
I sketch my pages before inking them, and the sketch phase is when I decide how the paneling will look. It's also when I letter, so I can make sure the art doesn't get covered by the bubbles and it all fits nicely in the panel.
I usually make my panels squares/rectangles, but I'll use more diagonally cut panels for two reasons: 1) if two panels have something that's happening at the same time (like on panels 3 & 4
) or for action scenes, like this:
I haven't had a lot of actiony scenes yet though, so it's more experimental at this point.
So yeah, I'm kind of systematic, and I have to wonder how much of what I do is actually picked up by readers. Doesn't matter whether or not it is, though, I just need a plan.
@vulpeslibertas - I think if you kept the style you have now, that would make your panels really Tumblr-friendly. (Not that I have any idea on how to use Tumblr properly.)
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:19 pm
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vulpeslibertas wrote:
Full disclosure, I haven't actively updated my comic for years. I keep thinking I'll get back to it one day.
Yeah, I remember you mentioning that (I think?) in another thread, but figured you might be prepping to come back to it.
As for being bland, I don't think yours are so much, since you were doing backgrounds. I'd figured you were going for a sort of movie-feel with the whole 3D thing and one-shot panels. If you had a lot of blankspace, that would be a problem.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Paneling
vulpeslibertas wrote:
Does anybody have a system or set of rules for paneling their comic?
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking about.
Are you looking for stuff like "borderless panels generally feel less anchored in time"?
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:55 am
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Based on what MindChimera said...
My layouts are not at all systematic. Anything but.
I take my script and I divide it into pages based on amount of material and story rhythm, and then I sketch out (very roughly) a storyboard of each page.
When I draw the storyboards, the panel borders are generally the last thing to get on the page. First I sketch the people (or objects, if that's what needs to be shown to get the story across), and then I write in the dialog bubbles, and only then do I worry about where one panel ends and the next one begins.
That's also the point where I decide one image needs to be bigger and another smaller, or that I can crop the image differently, or that these two panels ought to be matching pairs, or that I should move this dialog bubble to there, or whatever. I shift things around until the progression though time seems clear, and I like how the page looks.
If I can't achieve both those goals, then I split the amount of script I have into two pages, and try again.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 4:43 am
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I tend to work very intuitively, so I've had to think about this for quite a bit before I could come up with any rules that I use to decide what I'm going to do.
I think I have figured out what a few of the subconcious rules I was using are, though. I don't know if they will help anyone else, but for whatever they're worth:
1) The fewer panels, the better.
Whatever I have to say, I try to say it with the fewest possible images.
So, if I have two people talking. And there are no particularly important changes in facial expression, I will have one bigger picture of the two of them, and multiple speech bubbles to go with it, rather multiple small pictures that have essentially the same content, with one speech bubble for each.
Bigger, fewer images makes it possible for me to show detail more clearly. If you aren't into detail, maybe there's no advantage to this rule other than to avoid pointless repetition?
Sometimes I will have one person whose body language and facial expression doesn't change much, but the other person's does. So I might have have a tall thin panel with the one person shown in head to toe, allowing for the full display of the body language, and then have beside that two or three panels with the other person's face, showing the various changes in expression. To indicate that the tall panel is continuous with the panels beside it, I can overlap the smaller panels over top of the big panel, or I can widen the first panel and inset the smaller ones into it.
2) Information sets, should be made into visuals sets when possible. The overlapping side panels of facial expressions mentioned above can be made into a " visual set" by making them the same size and spacing them evenly.
3) Balance is pleasing to the mind and the eye. Symmetry is a form of balance that is very static. Other forms of balance have a greater sense of motion.
I could split my page in half and put one person on one side, and one on the other. That's symmetrical. But the long tall side panel versus the three little panels on the other side, is also balanced, and a bit less "stiff".
For Black Flag I often created non-symmetrical balance, by using diagonal lines, which are even more dynamic, but I don't think I ever used that technique with Scent of Spring. Maybe because Scent of Spring has no action, and so I thought the squarer more static forms of balance seemed to suit the feel of the story better?
4) Shape the panels to enhance the art, rather than shaping the art to fit the panel.
5) The most important stuff should usually be given the most space on the page.
6) Think outside the box.
Not all art needs to be confined to a bordered panel. The overlapping panels mentioned in the first rule created a sense that the first panel was continuous. Another way to create the same effect is to layer panel-less artwork over top of multiple panels. Artwork that is layered over other artwork like this, feels more important than it's size and shape would otherwise indicate, but borderless artwork also feels less anchored in time. (That can be a good thing sometimes.)
During action scenes, I frequently layer one image directly over another with no borders between them, creating a sense of continuous flowing movement.
Having an image break out of it's panel border, can create some interesting effects. It can make an action seem more abrupt, extreme or violent. It can create visual tension and a sense of conflict, as one image invades another image's space. It can probably do other things too, that I haven't figured out yet.
And, er, that's all I've figured out so far.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:57 am
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vulpeslibertas wrote:
Try pressing the Multi-page option in the sidebar.
<slaps head> D'oh! Didn't even notice that!
MindChimera wrote:
@dpat - I think I like your idea quite a bit. It wouldn't work for me (at least in this project) but it accounts for different monitor sizes pretty nicely. But it does look a bit odd since blankspace can creep up when the panels are
different heights
<slaps head again> I should'a taken that into account since I knew that panel was irregular, it needed breaks fore and aft, fixed, thanks. (Then again it was a daft experiment in the first place, I'll avoid in future and keep to my standard panel height... which is defined by the size of my screen as I take a .jpg snapshot.)
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:45 pm
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When I started the comic I was only using two basic layouts -- three wide panels, or two wide panels and a third split one. This quickly stopped working out for me. Getting more variety has been an... interesting learning process, for someone who's as non-visual as I am.
My basic workflow these days for panelling and structure:
1) Script. This tells me how many panels I'm going to need. I do panel breaks within the scene depending on people's moods shifting, scene changes, people entering/leaving, etc. As Lavenderbard says, you generally want as few panels as possible per page to get your point across -- it's much better to have a single large panel than a lot of smaller ones.
2) Look at the space requirements. How many people are in the scene? How much dialogue do I have cram in there? Is there important action that I have to be sure people see? If there's been a shift in place from the last page/panel, I'll generally also allow more space in the first panel to let people get oriented to where we are, who's there, et cetera. Aside from size, I should know the general shape that would be best for the panel (a wide panel allows for more people and background elements showing; a tall panel is great for small, close groups of two or three people and showing more body language. That sort of thing.)
3) String together the panel size requirements in such a way that I have a page's worth of panels in a reasonably logical flow.
4) Drink.
At one point I had a little flipbook with various layouts, organized by number of panels: it helped a lot when I was struggling with step 3. I've finally gotten a bit better at this but the flipbook still gets grabbed from time to time.
I still have issues with cramming too much dialogue per panel and per page. At some point I started defining the lengths of my pages as "however long they need to be to fit in all the panels", which helped a bit. I also fight a fair bit with flow, but I'm having trouble vocalizing what I do there and may need to come back later with pictures.
And of course there's figuring out the camera angles and who needs to be foregrounded in each panel and remembering to leave space for dialogue and such, which is never-ending fun, but a bit outside the scope of the question....
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:56 pm
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ttallan wrote:
this example of both bad and good panel/balloon combos in a Marvel comic
, posted at BleedingCool.)
Verree eenteresting. Yeah a little arrow would have worked well at that split-level point halfway down the page. Although purely by accident, I think, I read the panels in the right order, shifting left through the split-level bit. Maybe I just followed the "Z". Good sample to point at. Even the pros sometimes don't hit the target gold dead center.
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:54 am
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Yeah, I'm with Sylvia, the first page in that example is actually correct as far as I'm concerned.
Text in English reads left to right, then top to bottom; you move horizontally before you move vertically. As far as the panels themselves go, panel 4 (the tall one) comes before panel 5
vertically and horizontally.
What they did in the first page was actually divide into two major cuts: the first three panels are the top cut, and the rest are the bottom cut. Separate the two cuts, and the order makes sense.
But I can see where the confusion comes from, since the right-side bottom cuts are the same width as the right-side top so seems to lead that way. I think it would read easier if, instead of having the last four panels overlay panel 4, have panel 4 lay over them (as well as the bottom-left corner of panel 3). Or just be wider so they're crowded out more.
As for the second page, I kind of wish that site had put up the version without the red line first, because I'm not sure whether I'd make it through or not, haha. I think I could follow it correctly, but I'd be asking myself the whole time "Is this the next panel?" I would probably miss the helicopter panel though.
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 4:02 am
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dpat57 wrote:
Yeah a little arrow would have worked well at that split-level point halfway down the page.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo nononon ono onono no nonono on ono ononoo
Arrows are a big pet peeve of mine, haha. To me it's like a big red flag saying "I have no idea what I'm doing" or "I made this layout and it doesn't work but I'm sticking to it."
They really bother me because, in a lot of things I've read, the arrows aren't noticable enough and I miss them. So I end up reading the wrong order anyway, then see the arrows
. It's also one of those little things that sort of takes you out of the story and reminds you it's just a comicbook.
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:18 am
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Yeah... I have to admit I had no trouble reading the first comic either. "Across then down" is how I read, always. I've never had a reader complain those were hard to follow either (and my readers are refreshingly good about registering complaints.) And I don't think I'd have made the jump to that helicopter either. Maybe we're just freaks.
The one they
complain about is this one:
I've never had a comment if the bigger image is first, but I rarely get away with "down then back up" without at least one whimper that they went across to the big image second and it DIDN'T MAKE SENSE.
I can sometimes help by jagging the second panel to the right a bit, so that it cues the "across" reflex. But by far the better way, as ttallan says, is to lead with the voice bubbles. As I am a klutz I've only just figured this out and I'm still quite clumsy with it, but having a voice bubble that breaks panelling -- pokes into the second panel from the first, or vice versa -- works pretty well, as people's eyes will go with the words. (In my case it probably helps that there's so many of them.
The other type I've occasionally had trouble with:
Here the issue seems to be that, presented with equal-sized panels right and below, the readers don't know which way to go. It seems to be solved pretty simply by resizing:
Doesn't actually matter which is bigger or smaller, this time. As long as it's not the same size as the panel below it, people automatically track to the right.
Just my experience though -- there is always the possibility, nay, the likelihood, that my readership are also freaks.
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 2:35 pm
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iaviv wrote:
@katastrophe - If the readers are confused by such obvious layouts, it might be because they weren't used properly.
This is almost certainly true. I have no artistic ability whatsoever and have spent the past five years fumbling about trying to gain at least some basic skills. *wry grin* Thanks for the example: that's very helpful and I'll have to work towards being able to see/do that kind of thing in my own stuff.
But yeah. I'm a writer. I tend to fall back on voice bubbles and writing for cues, because that's what I'm good at, and any advice of mine should be taken with that caveat in mind.
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:46 am
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I'm reading a collection of Alex Raymond's
Flash Gordon
Sunday strips from 1935, and while they're gorgeously drawn and colored, sometimes he was so careless about panel flow that he resorted to putting little numbers in the corners of the panels to point out their reading order, because otherwise you'd have been completely lost. : P
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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:14 pm
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I don't "cut" or "draw" my panels into my page; my panels float. I think this comes from my having more interest in newspaper comic than comic books and manga, and newspaper comics always float their panels.
I've gravitated toward a general (though not concrete) method of having 12 panels on a page. By default, each the same size, arranged in a grid.
I'm honestly a bit jealous of the comics that use a manga-style and generate new panels for each page, cutting them into new patterns with a great variety of sizes. I would love to move my method more toward one that allows more freedom.
Now some may look at my comic and wonder what I'm talking about with my 12-panel grid talk. I'll get to that.
So here's my process for a page. I take a script that I have already written, and I put the dialogue into a blank template I made. I have guidelines for my basic 12-panel grid, so I know where to start for a basic panel size. Usually, panels fit into this format just fine. Often enough, I have to make a particular panel bigger, add smaller panels, whatever. Anything in regards to this is usually written in as a note, in the file, as text.
For me, a bigger panel means a wider panel. I haven't made a taller panel in ages. I regret this. But I'm too verbose and I have a lot to try to cram into each page, so it's really hard to arrange a page to have more than four rows.
This is done well in advance before I get around to drawing the page, so I can plan the layouts thoroughly. I create my pages to simultaneously work for both print and web, so I need to account for page breaks in the middle of a web's page, add extra panels into the print version for easier transitions, etc.
When I have artwork to put in the page, I start getting creative. Like I said, I have floating panels. This lets me adjust the shape of each panel individually. I look at the individual panel and try to get a grasp on the emotion of that panel, and craft a panel shape that reflects that emotion. Mundane panels get a simple box. If somethings slightly askew, so is the panel. I often use this as a way to convey more subtle emotions that are sometimes hidden.
Panel 1 was meant to feel very dry and bland, so it's a simple square.
Panel 2 was breaking sharply against that dry-and-bland, it cuts against the first panel, and the background almost lines up but doesn't.
Panel 4 was meant to reflect Cherise's hidden emotion; Danson was leaning in too close to her so I made the panel feel a little cramped. In retrospect, this would have been more successful had I bent the middle inward. (I learn a lot of this as I go.)
In panel 7 Cherise is lying by telling the truth. The panel shape looks normal and understandable, but one corner flecks out.
Of course, sometimes I just like to have fun and make the panels interesting, but I've been gravitating more and more to making the panels reflect a proper emotion, but I still experiment a bit to try to uncover what emotions a particular shape can accomplish.
I also try to pay attention to the negative space, gaps between panels carry emotions as well. I especially see what this accomplishes when I composite a page for the web. While I need to fit everything in neatly for a printed page, when I take those panels out for the web, I have a a change to re-arrange them, and I do.
Here's a couple things I've learned:
FOREMOST: The best format for a webcomic layout is a strictly vertical one:
Example: (Not my comic)
This lets the reader scroll down to see each new panel.
There are two main problems with
not using
this layout: One, the reader can see future panels ahead of time, potentially spoiling a surprise or a joke. Two, long panels next to regular panels can have content missed. For example:
The bottom of A might have dialogue or other important information that the reader does not see before reading B, because it is cut off at the bottom of the monitor. This is not a problem with printed pages, but it is with web pages.
When I lay out my panels for the web, I keep scrolling in mind and try to make my comic read as best as I can in a vertical layout. Instead of having three panel on a row I might have two. I might stagger some panels just to gently lead them down, so more of the page is not seen until the reader gets to that part.
Other notes:
Circle panels draw a lot of focus. If ever there is something important that the reader needs to see, put it in a circle panel You are literally circling an element of the comic, and the reader will focus on it more.
As was mentioned earlier, size of a panel indicates time. It also indicated focus. You could also say that panel size indicates how long the reader should stare at the panel.
Here's another example from a comic that is not mine. Look at the emotion the last panel brings because of its size:
A small panel is great for a quick quip. A large panel or even a splash page demand big focus. Don't use a large panel unless you have a reason to do so.
My webcomic: Mischief in Maytia
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1. Re: How to export document to pdf with CMYK colorsDidier H. Feb 16, 2012 1:15 PM (in response to kristofix)
You need to go File > Export. Then select PDF. In the PDF export settings you'll have to select the 'Output' tab. Here it becomes important what you select (depending on the colors you want in your resulting PDF). For CMYK only, select 'Convert to Destination (Preserve Numbers)'. For 'Destination', select something like 'Document CMYK - ISONewspaper26v4'. ISONewspaper26v4 is a standardised color space for Newspaper printing in Europe. After choosing all that, click 'Export'. Your resulting PDF will now only contain CMYK objects.
A few things you need to be aware of:
- Don't choose just anything for PDF presets, but rely on standards like PDF/X-1a (available PDF preset in Adobe InDesign). BTW: colors will always be converted to the CMYK if you use these presets (next to some other features that will be set correct automatically for you).
- Make sure to select a proper destination output profile. As I said, ISONewspaper26v4 could be ok for Newspaper printing, if you're located in Europe. The Ghent Workgroup has a nice overview on their website to see which output destination profiles to select for which region: http://www.gwg.org/recommended_ICC_profiles.phtml. They also provide PDF presets you can download for exporting to PDF (also based on PDF/X-1 presets btw): http://tinyurl.com/7an6j4n. If don't have the ISONewspaper26v4 ICC-profile, you can download and install it first from this page (bottom): http://www.wan-ifra.org/articles/2011/01/17/iso-profiles-download.
And if all of this doesn't work, you can still ask your printer exactly what to do.
Hope this could help.
2. Re: How to export document to pdf with CMYK colorskristofix Feb 16, 2012 1:49 PM (in response to Didier H.)
yes, but in "destination" I have only two things to choose with CMYK in name.
it is : "working CMYK - Coldset DG26(45) TIL225 K90 ModGB " and "Document - Coldset DG26(45) TIL225 K90 ModGB "
and below is many things but none of them has CMYK in name...
3. Re: How to export document to pdf with CMYK colorsDidier H. Feb 16, 2012 2:05 PM (in response to kristofix)
Oh yes, I see. But the chosen destination color profile doesn't need to have CMYK in it's name in order to give you CMYK output. Try any of the ICC profiles from the category (devided by black line in pull down menu) beginning with 'Coated FOGRA27', 'Coated FOGRA39', etc., and you will see you'll have CMYK output in the end (all ICC profiles from this categoy are CMYK based output profiles).


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Science Friction
We Like to Believe Science is the Ultimate Trump Card. Time to Think Again.
Last March, a frontpage story about a proposed biomass power plant appeared in my local newspaper, The Transylvania Times. Matthew Ross, an attorney representing the plant's business owners, Renewable Developers, told the reporter that the $22 million, 4-megawatt facility could put our little county in the mountains of western North Carolina "at the forefront in the race toward fossil-fuel independence." He said the plant's cutting-edge pyrolysis technology is quickly emerging as a safe source of renewable energy. "The process is an extremely clean, state of the art gasification system that will convert the raw feed stock, MSW [municipal solid waste] and wood waste into a synthetic gas that closely resembles natural gas," Ross assured the reporter. "It bears absolutely no resemblance to incineration."
To many people around here, this sounded like an attractive opportunity. Transylvania County has fallen on hard times since its two major factories shut down in 2002; two-thirds of the children in the public schools now qualify for free lunches. Our predominantly right-wing politicians have been trying hard to lure some kind of decent-paying industry back to town, and at least some of them appeared to believe that this biomass plant could finally be the answer to their prayers.
But some other local citizens had different ideas. Shortly after news about the proposed biomass power plant became public, they created a Facebook page, "The Transylvania County Biomass Info Exchange," and a group called "People for Clean Mountains." Communicating through these online channels, a rapidly expanding group of people soon posted hundreds of articles and links that challenged Ross's case for the project. A grassroots opposition movement began to gain force.
In April, a month after the newspaper article appeared, Ross delivered a 45-minute PowerPoint presentation at the local library to a standing-room only crowd of several hundred people. Many of those in the crowd were wearing blue to show their support for People for Clean Mountains and their resistance to the plant. During a follow-up Q&A, one person after another stood up and blasted Ross with arguments against the proposal. When the verbal bloodbath finally ended, everyone stood up and stormed out.
In a way, the community forum at the library was inspiring: Here were citizens engaging passionately in an important civic issue. But as I drove home through the rainy night in my gasoline-powered car to my inefficient, coal-powered home, I was uneasy. I myself felt deeply conflicted about this project. Despite all its substantial flaws, was it nevertheless a baby step in the right direction toward a greener economy? I wondered whether what I had just witnessed was an exemplary display of enlightened grassroots environmentalism, or self-righteous, manipulative, and cynical NIMBY-ism.
After the event, Ross told Transylvania Times reporter Eric Crews that while he had expected to hear some concerns at the meeting, he was surprised by the "angry and vitriolic" tone, and found the lack of substantive, reasoned dialogue "very regrettable."
"They basically called Ross a liar," Crews told me. "They didn't give him an opportunity to make his case or respond to their questions. As a reporter, I strive to remain neutral, but it seemed to me that people were unfairly lumping together pyrolysis and incineration, and that a lot of the scientific papers they were citing on PCM's website and Facebook exchange were dated and not necessarily relevant to this project. I felt like they were just trying to use 'science' and 'environmentalism' to stop something they didn't want in their backyards."
While writing an earlier article about this project, Crews had called me to ask whether, as an environmental science professor, I supported the biomass plant. I appreciated Crews' good intentions; he was doing exactly what a good reporter should do, trying to find a reputable source who could provide unbiased analysis. Still, a part of me wanted to respond flippantly and say, "We don't ask political scientists who they will vote for in the next political election, so why ask environmental scientists which side they will support in a big environmental decision?"
I didn't say that, though, since I already knew the answer. The reason we ask scientists such questions is because we believe that science is rigorous and objective. We believe that science seeks, and ultimately discovers, the plain and unadorned truth. Science sits on a higher plane, far above the muck of politics and the constant swirl of culture.
Of course, not everyone believes these things. There's a deep current of anti-intellectualism running through American society. You can trace a straight line from the Scopes Monkey Trial more than a century ago to today's Creation Museum, where children are told that Adam and Eve co-existed with the dinosaurs. "Prepare to Believe," reads the tagline of the Creation Museum, and for millions of Americans, belief – or faith – will always trump science.
But the popular commitment to scientific empiricism is just as strong, if not stronger. And so, when it comes to public policy making, we often hear that we should base our decisions on "the best available science." Want to know how to reform our education system? Look at what the studies say. Want to improve our health care system? Examine all the research on the subject. We are happy to place ourselves at the mercy of "experts." The fervor for science-based decision making at times resembles religious fundamentalism – only it's a secular fundamentalism, one that replaces God with Reason.
The bias toward science's infallibility is common among political liberals in general, and environmentalists in particular. Partially this is because – since the days of George Perkins Marsh and John Muir – an ecological worldview has been founded upon an understanding of (or at least an appreciation for) the earth sciences. An esteem for science in embedded in environmentalism's DNA. For evidence of this, look no further than the continuing controversy over global climate change. Many environmentalists think that if only they could cut through all the propaganda and junk science paid for by the fossil fuel interests, and show the masses the unassailable scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming, then we could break through the logjam and start solving the problem.
That's just magical thinking. There is no such thing as a completely objective scientist or completely objective science.
We might like to believe that there are some cold, hard truths out there, and that pure science is the best way to discover and disseminate those truths. The irrefutable laws of physics and chemistry will rise above our petty politics and guide our way forward. But the comforting image of scientists marching toward the true laws of nature is a myth. The real cold, hard truth is that such "laws" are merely ever-evolving human constructs. And the interpretation of those constructs is always subject to debate. As the fight over one biomass power plant in the mountains of North Carolina was making clear, everyone believes "the science" is on their side.
I, too, was convinced that science was on my side when I set out to save the world as a conservation biologist fresh out of graduate school. But I soon learned that, regardless of our politics or our professions, we all love to argue for "science-based solutions." Until, that is, the said science suggests something we don't like. Even in the rare instances in which I managed to get a group of opposing stakeholders to agree to resolve their differences by deferring to "the science," they almost always disagreed over how to choose, interpret, and apply this science in the messy real world.
Even within academia, scientists self-select into ideological disciplines. For example, scientists who, like me, choose to study ecology and conservation biology tend to have fundamentally different perspectives and values than those who choose physics or chemistry. Physicists and chemists are reductionists; ecologists are more likely to be holistic systems-thinkers. While ecologists are generally less enthusiastic about technologies such as nuclear power and GMOs, many physicists and chemists are in favor of them. Whether we are aware of it or not, the details of our personal and professional lives also profoundly affect how we do our own science, interpret the work of our colleagues, and ultimately decide what to support and oppose. In other words, scientists turn out to be just like everyone else.
Having been indoctrinated into the Church of Science somewhere on my way to earning a PhD, the notion of science as unavoidably biased and subjective seemed at first like blasphemy. But my repeated failures to resolve environmental conflicts with science ultimately led me to explore the work of political scientists and social psychologists. I discovered that "scientizing" conflicts in general – whether it's climate change or the Bush/Gore Florida recount – tends to lead to both greater intellectual uncertainty and more intense political polarization.
Daniel Sarewitz, a DC-based researcher who co-directs Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, has done some of the best work in this field. As he succinctly stated in a 2006 article published, ironically enough, in American Scientist: "Even when a disagreement seems to be amenable to technical analysis, the nature of science itself usually acts to inflame rather than quench the debate.…'More research' is often prescribed as the antidote, but new results quite often reveal previously unknown complexities, increasing the sense of uncertainty and highlighting the differences between competing perspectives."
In a previous paper, Sarewitz illustrated this phenomenon by examining the shifting science and politics associated with the proposed US nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, a 230-square-mile section of Nevada desert that is probably the most thoroughly studied chunk of real estate on the planet. The hydrological system is a critical component of the suitability of any potential nuclear waste site because flowing water may accelerate the degradation of the waste containment vessels. Initial estimates in the early 1980s of the rate at which water flows through rock at Yucca Mountain indicated a percolation flux of between 4 and 10 mm per year. Further research reduced these estimates to between 0.1 and 1 mm per year. By the mid-1990s, this technical issue was considered more or less settled. Then persistent political pressure forced the government to conduct new hydrological research utilizing different techniques. This, in turn, led to the conclusion, based on an aggregation of estimates from seven outside experts, that the percolation flux at Yucca Mountain was actually somewhere between 1 and 30 mm per year.
Sarewitz points out that the first wave of research at Yucca Mountain was sponsored by the Department of Energy, an agency with strong institutional motivations to keep the project moving forward. As the research opened up to a greater diversity of scientific and political players, a correspondingly greater diversity of perspectives and approaches came into play. The final result – after decades of research funded by billions of taxpayer dollars – was a higher level of uncertainty. Ironically, not long after promising in his first inauguration to "restore science to its rightful place," President Obama slashed funding for Yucca Mountain, effectively killing the project for blatantly political reasons.
In a recent conversation, Sarewitz told me that two things impressed him when he went to Capitol Hill on a postdoctoral congressional science fellowship in 1989: "The first was the capacity for politicians to mobilize legitimate experts on different sides of the issues to debate each other. The second was how some of the people I completely disagreed with philosophically, intellectually, and ideologically were good, smart people who brought a rational and credible perspective to the table."
"Science is permissive of all sorts of things," he continued. "If you find the science that supports what you want to do, then you think it can dictate what everyone else should do, and you don't have to be honest about the complex sources of your own motives. On the other hand, if someone tells us the science says we have to do something we think is wrong, of course we don't trust the science! So in these sorts of complicated mixes of science and politics, the idea that scientists can act as experts dictating particular policy choices divorced from their personal worldviews and values is bullshit."
There's a technical name for this all-too-human behavior: "confirmation bias," which is our tendency to find evidence that supports our beliefs and discard the evidence that challenges them. The old-fashioned term is "cherry-picking." Each side in a dispute has no problem rounding up a scientist or two who will confirm its original position. And – in yet another irony – cherry-picking is usually the sin of your political opponent. Liberals can enjoy Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science, while conservatives can dig into Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell's recent rejoinder, Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left.
Seasoned environmentalists understand the challenges posed by confirmation bias. "Picking and choosing science is a common problem," says Bruce Hamilton, the deputy executive director of the Sierra Club. "Everybody's got a scientist and some science on their side. So at the end of the day, the science doesn't resolve the issue."
Tina Swanson, the director of NRDC's Science Center, told me: "Even when you have the best possible science that is completely unquestioned and incontrovertible, getting change implemented is slow and incremental. There are other drivers that are often closely intertwined with the science, such as societal values, economics, and the technical and political feasibility of what you want to do."
And yet appealing to the authority of science as a kind of trump card is a hard habit to break. It only takes a few minutes of Googling to find plenty of Sierra Club press releases or NRDC blog posts with some version of "according to scientists." The more complex and dire our environmental problems become, the more we seem to view science as a magic wand that can make disputes disappear. We want blue ribbon panels of dispassionate scientific priests to tell us what to do and save us from ourselves.
There are three major problems with this admittedly appealing fantasy.
First, if and when "the leading scientists" agree with each other, history has shown that they are often wrong – or at least not any smarter or wiser than the rest of us. In addition to the undemocratic nature of putting an elite group of scientists in charge, the track record of "science-based" policies has been mixed, at best; the embrace of infant formula and DDT in the mid-twentieth century are just two examples of such scientific missteps. And when scientists get tangled up with powerful interests, they can be used to legitimize some horrific ideas, such as the "science" of eugenics.
"It would be a lot more constructive if we could argue about values instead of facts."
Second, highly trained and credentialed experts often sharply disagree with one another. Consider the radically different judgments typically handed down by our Supreme Court Justices after hearing the same learned arguments over the same Constitution. Our most venerable scientists often reach equally divided conclusions because they are similarly informed and motivated by a complex mixture of rationalism, emotion, values, self-interest, and ego. In short: scientists are people, too.
Third, asking scientists to solve a complex problem like climate change is as misguided as asking architects to solve homelessness. This is because – despite its undeniable power and achievement – science is merely a tool. Like any tool, science is very good at some things and very bad at others. One of the things that science is not good at is resolving our underlying political and philosophical differences.
"It's very difficult for environmentalists to use science to persuade others to support something," says Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale, and a member of Yale's Cultural Cognition Project. "People predictably and justifiably weigh whatever you tell them against what they think your objective is. In every interesting case of public policy making, the judgment of what is the best available evidence, and what are the implications of this evidence, is a subjective, nonscientific, value-based decision. It's true that the public doesn't know the scientific details of divisive issues such as climate change. But it doesn't follow that the reason they're divided is because they don't know the details."
Kahan's research suggests conflicts about scientific findings are more a product of our different identities than different levels of scientific literacy. Not surprisingly, he found that people with different cultural values strongly disagree about how serious a threat climate change is, and draw radically divergent conclusions from the same evidence. Interestingly, however, he also found that individuals who are the most science literate and the most proficient at technical reasoning are also the most culturally polarized.
In a recent Nature column titled, "Why We Are Poles Apart on Climate Change," Kahan concluded that the problem isn't the public's reasoning capacity, but rather a toxic partisan environment that says, "believe this; otherwise, we'll know you are one of them." He argues that people who adopt a position that runs counter to their cultural group "risk being labeled weird and obnoxious in the eyes of those on whom they depend for social and financial support." In the end, tribal affinities trump any and all evidence.
"It would be a lot more constructive if we could argue about values instead of the facts," Kahan told me, "because then we wouldn't be calling each other anti-science and stupid."
Sarewitz drew a parallel conclusion: "If you say the facts are consistent with a particular position, and that you believe in this position because of those facts, then you are forcing an argument over the facts, even though what really matters is the underlying reason for your preference, the motivating values and worldviews. Somehow we seem to think that the facts make our values stronger, but that's backwards. People may find other facts, but they can't tell you what to believe."
The implications for environmentalists should be obvious: By themselves, fact-driven arguments don't work very well. To be perfectly clear: I'm not disappearing down a postmodern rabbit hole or arguing for some kind of cynical "post-truth" politics in which partisans can say whatever they want. Facts matter; evidence is important. But we in the environmental movement need to recognize the limits of our appeals to science and reason.
Meanwhile, back in Transylvania County, the campaign against the biomass plant just kept getting bigger and stronger. Its growth was due, in part, to the organizers' instinctive move to employ the kinds of strategies suggested by Kahan and Sarewitz – to frame a contest about values instead of having a competition over facts.
"People were coming at this from a lot of different angles, so we agreed up front to take an inclusive, holistic, nonjudgmental approach," Ned Doyle, one of founding members of People for Clean Mountains, told me. "We also decided that we didn't just want to say 'no.' So we organized public venues for sharing and promoting alternative ideas for sustainable economic development and job creation in this county."
The strategy seemed to be working. My elderly neighbor – who has a Sarah Palin sticker on his truck – called me one day to ask how he could help "stop that biomass plant from ruining our natural environment." PCM's "Burning Biomass is Nuts" signs, featuring Transylvania County's iconic white squirrel wearing a gas mask, began sprouting up everywhere.
But following Sarewitz's suggestion – "Don't use science to try to solve political problems, but rather try to solve political problems first." – is not always easy. Because we kept mistaking a political conflict for a technical problem, we futilely attempted to resolve the controversy with science. We spent a lot of time and energy arguing over technical details of the proposed biomass plant, such as the relationship between pyrolysis and incineration. To support their respective positions, each side stridently cited an impressive web of peer-reviewed scientific papers. They converted no one.
We probably would have been far better served by having respectful dialogues about the more fundamental, non-scientific issues surrounding the project, such as our different visions for how best to lift ourselves out of our post-industrial economic malaise. Perhaps this would have enabled us to find enough common ground to work together. Maybe we even could have tinkered with the original biomass proposal until we found a way to make it work for both sides.
That didn't happen – or at least it hasn't yet. In July, in front of a packed crowd at the county courthouse, our commissioners voted 3-2 to approve a PCM-driven moratorium preventing county approval of any biomass electricity-generating facility for the next 12 months. The project, however, is not gone for good. Two of the commissioners who voted in favor of the moratorium made it clear they did not necessarily want to stop this project, but simply wanted more time to consider it. Before making a decision, the commissioners said, they would like additional scientific information.
Robert Cabin is an associate professor of environmental science and ecology at Brevard College. He is the author of Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice and Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai'i.
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While I appreciate Dr. Cabin's essay regarding the difficult role of scientific rigor in political decision-making I would like to correct one statement he makes. Dr. Cabin says, "To support their respective positions, each side stridently cited an impressive web of peer-reviewed scientific papers." I wish this had been true, but unfortunately after the developers held their initial public meeting introducing the community to their general plans for the biomass facility they fell silent. In spite of repeated requests from the county commissioners, the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and local citizens, the developers were unable, or unwilling, to provide information about the exact technology they actually were proposing, where else facilities existed using similar technology, or even a basic business plan that would have demonstrated the economic feasibility and long-term impact on the community. In the scientific world facts may sometimes be difficult to define and act upon. In the world of business and governance, actions and trustworthiness, or the lack of them, can clearly help decide who we should and shouldn't do business with.
By rick falknor on Wed, December 11, 2013 at 7:37 am
I am a physicist, and have heard Physics described as "the application of mathematics to the real world". Most work in Physics has two phases: data taking and analysis. Any judgmental or emotional attitudes during this work can easily corrupt both phases (waves or particles, anybody?). The problem I had with the biomass plant was a lack of data to analyze. Most technical questions were simply brushed off, with a sort-of promise of maybe having more data later. It seems like either they are very ignorant about their project or they are hiding something. Neither possibility bodes well for the project.
The big question I had that was not answered was why they need to be next to a river. I see only two possibilities: cooling and refuse dumping. They spoke of a holding pool like that at Ecusta for toxic residues, but such a pool will eventually fill up and could accidentally spill. This is just a single simple example of the environmental questions which need to be answered before we can rationally evaluate the viability of that plant. In this example, the French Broad River is far too important to too many people to risk damaging with thermal or chemical pollution.
By Allan Roberts on Tue, December 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Overall, an insightful article on the complexity of these issues often framed as 'just' science. As one of the many local citizens involved with People for Clean Mountains, would like to add that we never really had any big problems with the "science" itself of burning garbage or, more importantly in many ways, the regional forest to feed a biomass facility. Yes, we challenged the developers false claims of pyrolysis vs open incineration in terms of how "clean" ( loose term here ), however that point was not a big factor nor focus in our efforts. It was the whole idea of burning (by whatever technology/science)so called garbage AND the threat of harvesting the forests for fuel here, and overseas facilities. PCM learned rapidly what others already knew, there are more jobs in recycling, conservation, resource recovery and the like than there ever would be simply burning garbage. There would be far more environmental and economic benefits from not creating the garbage (or cutting the trees) in the first place. Hence, our strategy from the onset was to look at the big picture - energy, environment and economics - rather than debate reductionist tech details and science. It became evident that burning anything (in this context) was not cost effective, not environmental sound nor economically sustainable as energy policy. While it's accurate in the close that "we'll see" what happens, the awareness in the county has been raised so far that it's very very very unlikely any form of this will ever come to pass here. Forests are NOT fuels that can be developed on this scale -rationally- for environmental, economic and energy reasons. Great article!! Thanks, Dr. Cabin!
By Ned Ryan Doyle on Tue, December 10, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Robert. There is more than enough scientific evidence that shows that biomass burner schemes like the one you spoke of in Transylvania county are highly carbon intensive, moreso than coal, and higher in fine particulate matter than coal. Burning garbage, one option presented, no matter the bells the whistles, still serves as a shell game, moving heavy metals and dioxins and furans into the sky, often in a more bio-available way.
Ross and his local supporters were quite secretive in their plans, only allowing citizens a bit over two weeks to do their research into the implications of burning trees or garbage. They never professed to have all the answers as Ross pretended to, but rather had all the pertinent questions that need to be addressed honestly before a community decides to commit to such a potentially dirty, and financially ruinous project.
They never came across as NIMBYs, but rather concerned and engaged citizens asking for observations, help and scientific data to better educate their fellow citizens. Many in PCM remained open-minded in the process, but as new science, and community experiences with these burners became known, it was obvious that science was never on the side of Ross and Associates.
The shell game of burning industries does everything in their power to suppress science or discredit the science they cannot allow to be included in an honest debate. The Manoment Study in Massachusetts was a case in point, showing the false carbon accounting used by industry and that forest incinerators produce far more carbon emissions per BTU than coal plants. Likewise studies done by Physicians organizations on the vast increase in fine particulate pollution over coal were met by industry with considerable rage.
As a scientist, I do hope you look deeper into the science and realities, between the hype and actual performance of these schemes. PCM has an extensive library of scientific papers on their website.
Objectivity is one thing, but embracing objectivity to the point of unwillingness to come to a conclusion based on the best available science is counter to the interests of the communities science is supposed to serve and protect.
I have been following the incineration and biomass energy industries for over two decades and was quite smitten by biomass energy as a green solution back then. Over the course of dealing with the industry in forums and hearing the horror stories of downwind communities, skepticism grew, then the realization that we cannot burn our way out of our reliance on fossil fuels. There is the third way, clean renewables, that the good folks of Transylvania County and hundreds if not thousands of other communities are addressing and embracing after studying the science.
By Denny Haldeman on Tue, December 10, 2013 at 10:22 am
Dear Robert;
As a lifelong environmentalist,(I was born in a state park in Fla, and raised in the Great Smokies, I understand the gap between science and social issues….it seems to me, that if we quantify enviro values into our economic system, the problem becomes self solving.
A monetary system that recognises that energy in equals energy out…basic physics, would solve the problem for all time. Admitted, it would end a capitalistic system but Mother nature doesn't operate that way anyhow….I'd love to hear your comments on this.
By John Winter on Sat, December 07, 2013 at 5:22 pm
Won't Get Bio-Fooled Again
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First of all, when choosing accent chairs for your home be sure to factor in which style chair is appropriate for your room decor. Accent chairs are available in all shapes, sizes and varieties so you have a wide selection to choose from to fit your personal needs. It is important to really survey your room and decide which type chair would best fit in the type ambiance your trying to create. If you are looking for a stylish chair that adds loads of comfort you may want to go with an oversized lazy boy type chair. If classic style is more of what you are looking for you may choose a wooden straight back chair with padded seating and loads of detail in the wood carving. If you are thinking more along the lines of fancy elegance you may decide to go with a chaise lounge done in a beautiful fabric.


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She's still in the middle of planning her dream wedding, but according to Jenni "JWoww" Farley, her fiancé Roger Mathews is ready for kids now!
"I'm more traditional and wouldn't have babies before a wedding," the Jersey Shore star exclusively tells In Touch. But that's not what her hubby-to-be has in mind! "Roger wants children now," she says.
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The reality star— who got engaged in September 2012— is well aware that her biological clock is ticking, and is completely open to starting a family in the near future.
"Especially as we get older, [kids are] definitely a thought," JWoww says. " I'm 27, [Roger]'s 37 and I turn 28 next month, so you know… you don't want to wait until you're 40 to have kids."
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So now that her BFF Snooki is a mom, has this changed JWoww's perspective on parenthood?
"While seeing Lorenzo makes me have baby fever, I'm in a different position," she tells In Touch. "My family doesn't live in New Jersey, nor does Roger's family. I mean, we have friends [in New Jersey] but how can you toss your kid onto your friend and say 'Hey, here's my baby!'? So I think we'll wait."
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And with a giant wedding in the works, it might be best to hold off 'til the party's over!
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The UFC Can Learn a Lesson From Bellator: How to Promote Bad Fights
By Matt Saccaro
The UFC said "Hey, did you hear there's UFC FIGHTS™ on tonight? The finest athletes in the world are facing off and it'll be action packed. Watch it!"
So we took their word for it, and watched. The athletes faced off, but they weren't the finest in the world, and it wasn't action packed. The athletes were green, regional-caliber competitors and there was more labored breathing and bouts of stalling than action.
Then the next event came. "It's FIGHT WEEEEEEK! UFC FIGHTS™ are on again. The finest athletes in the world are doing battle in the Octagon™. Be sure to watch!"
We were skeptical, but being loyal MMA fans, we watched again. We were let down again. We voiced our concerns, only to be told we weren't Real Fans if we didn't appreciate the fights the UFC gave us. Not wanting to lose our MMA streed cred, we watched the next event that promised the top 1% of fighters battling in the Superbowl of MMA only to be disappointed.
This is what being an MMA fan has been like for the past year or two–especially since the UFC went full "World Fucking Domination" on us.
Fight cards are tougher to sit through because the talent levels are lower. Sometimes there's two of these regional-level, star-sparse cards on the same day! And I'm not ragging on UFC Fight Night 42 specifically; on paper the card was pretty decent for a free Fight Night Card. I'm referring to the general lowering of the bar in terms of card quality that's become undeniable as of late. The most insulting part is all these events are, for the most part, marketed the same way: Here's awesome UFC Fights. They'll be good. Watch them or you're not an MMA fan.
And judging by the decline in interest (and PPV buys), lots of viewers decided they weren't fans. And I'm not going to go on for much longer because I've written about the issue of over-saturation extensively on CagePotato, but the UFC can learn an important lesson from Bellator regarding how it promotes less-than-stellar fights: Be honest.Read More DIGG THIS


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On 12 to 14 March 2008, the court action initiated by TAC and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) against Matthias Rath and the Government of South Africa will be heard in the Cape High Court. This court case is critical for the rule of law as it relates to the Medicines Act.
In November 2005, the TAC and SAMA filed court papers against the state, Matthias Rath and others. We have asked the Cape High Court to order the Minister of Health to stop Rath's experiments on humans, his distribution of unregistered medicines and his false claims that vitamin and micronutrient supplements reverse the course of AIDS.
In its response, the state claimed that it conducted an investigation and found no evidence of wrong-doing by the Rath Foundation. We have asked the state for the record of this investigation but it has refused. We have not seen any evidence that any proper investigation has been conducted. For example, the Law Enforcement Unit of the Department of Health has not interviewed any of the witnesses who have deposed written affidavits testifying to the illegal activities of the Rath Foundation.
Rath is the definitive charlatan. With the support of South Africa's Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, he has sown confusion in South Africa about the treatment and prevention of HIV. The Rath saga demonstrates how damaging politically-supported AIDS denialism is. Rath is one of many charlatans taking advantage of vulnerable people with HIV in the country, but he has been one of the most destructive and almost certainly the richest. This case challenges the impunity with which charlatans have been able to act due to the failure of government to enforce the Medicines Act.
Government has rejected settlement offers by TAC which would require the state to investigate Rath's activities and stops his illegal activities.
Rath is a pharmaceutical entrepreneur who claims that his products, high-dose multivitamins, treat AIDS, heart-disease, cancer, diabetes, bird flu and numerous other diseases. He sells his products on the Internet at exorbitant prices ($29 per month for the most basic package). His markets appear to have been primarily in Europe and the United States. As far as we can ascertain, he started operating in South Africa in 2004. This is a brief timeline of what he has done in the country since then:
In 2004, he ran adverts in newspapers making general attacks on pharmaceutical companies and espousing what he termed natural health.
On 26 November 2004, he ran an advert in the Mail & Guardian claiming that multivitamin supplements treat AIDS and that antiretrovirals make people with AIDS sicker.
He ran several more advertisements in various newspapers, including the Sowetan, Business Day and Daily Sun, making similar claims. Some newspapers acted ethically and rejected his advertisements.
Despite an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling stopping Rath's adverts because his claims were unsubstantiated, Rath and two newspapers violated the ruling in March 2005. Rath placed adverts in the Sowetan and City Vision attacking the ASA and repeating the above claims. These too were ruled against by ASA and subsequently Rath has not been able to advertise in South African newspapers.
Rath partly sponsored a propaganda video by another charlatan, Tine van der Maas. She and her mother claim that her garlic concoction treats a variety of diseases including AIDS and diabetes. The South African Minister of Health appears in the video apparently supporting van der Maas's efforts.
In early 2005, Rath and his agents started health facilities in Cape Town townships. He ran a marketing campaign to convince people with HIV to take high-dose multivitamins from his health facilities instead of antiretrovirals from the public health system. His products have never been registered with the Medicines Control Council, despite being eligible for registration.
On 15 April 2005, Rath ran an advertisement in the Mercury, in which he published the results of what he called a "clinical pilot study" in Khayelitsha. The study purported to show that multivitamins alone reverse the course of AIDS. Rath had no ethical approval or authorisation for the study. The law requires all clinical trials to be authorised by the Medicines Control Council. Various organisations subsequently documented a number of deaths on the trial. Rath's study has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal. It contained no control arm and a disproportionate number of patients on it appear to have died, including one of Rath's loudest supporters, Marietta Ndziba. In the court papers, two relatives of people who died on the Rath trial have written affidavits.
Rath also published the supposed findings of his trial in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and other newspapers (a shame on these newspapers).
From late 2004, Rath distributed pamphlets and ran adverts accusing TAC of being a front for the pharmaceutical industry. TAC successfully interdicted Rath in the Cape High Court from making this claim. Rath then published a press statement and distributed a pamphlet falsely representing the court judgment.
In 2007, Rath published a book titled "End AIDS!" which compares TAC to Nazis and attacks many of his critics as promoters of the pharmaceutical industry including COSATU (especially its Western Cape leader, Tony Ehrenreich), the South African Council of Churches, the South African Medical Association and its chairperson Kgosi Letlape, the president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Dr Francois Venter, Professor Leslie London (a leading scientist in the University of Cape Town's Department of Public Health), newspaper columnist Terry Bell and many others.
Rath also has numerous rulings and court findings against him in several other countries.
There is a pattern of evidence showing that the Minister of Health and other state officials have protected and supported Rath.
In 2004, Rath made a deal with South Africa's Medical Research Council (MRC) via its head, Anthony Mbewu, to run a series of workshops, which were essentially marketing events. Rath paid the MRC R200,000. The MRC eventually kept about R60,000 of this money because only some of the planned workshops took place. The minutes of the meetings between Rath and Mbewu record that Mbewu accused TAC of being a pharmaceutical front. Mbewu also recommended that Rath work with NAPWA, an organisation whose leadership consistently supported pseudo-scientific approaches to HIV and that nevertheless received substantial funding from the Department of Health. NAPWA's leadership has since supported Rath in another court case brought against him by TAC. NAPWA has also distributed Rath's products.
In February 2005, TAC lodged a complaint against Rath with the Medicines Control Council and subsequently the Department of Health. Despite numerous letters sent and a plethora of evidence supplied, the Department of Health has never properly investigated Rath's activities. On the contrary, senior officials in the Department of Health have treated with contempt TAC's efforts to get Rath investigated. This is described in detail in our court papers. Government's failure to investigate Rath is the reason we have taken legal action.
In April 2005, the Minister of Health had a one-on-one meeting with Rath. She has admitted this in Parliament. On the same day, at a meeting in Khayelitsha in which Rath sat in the audience, the Minister refused to condemn Rath despite being asked to do so by numerous members of the audience.
In a written answer to Parliament, the Minister stated that she would "only distance [herself] from Dr Rath if it can be demonstrated that the Vitamin supplements that he is prescribing are poisonous for people infected with HIV."
On 23 September 2005, the Minister of Health allowed two of Rath's agents, David Rasnick (a well-known AIDS denialist who has worked with the notorious Peter Duesberg) and the now deceased Sam Mhlongo, to present to the National Health Council on Rath's clinical trial. We are unaware of a real HIV scientist ever having the privilege of doing this in front of the National Health Council.
In 2006, the Director-General of Health instructed the Port Authorities to release Rath's medicines which they had impounded. It is our view that this was an illegal action by the Director-General. It was also an action that is only understandable in the context of the Director-General protecting Rath.
The ANC has never come to the defence of Member of Parliament and former Cabinet Minister Kader Asmal for his criticisms of Rath which prompted Rath to sue him for defamation. It is highly unusual for the ANC not to defend its leaders.
The court papers have revealed that the Department of Health sent a letter to Rath's company asserting that one of his products was a food substance, as opposed to a medicine. They had no authority to do so, because whether or not something is a medicine is determined by law in South Africa, not the opinion of Department of Health officials. This explains why one of Rath's pamphlets states "The Dr. Rath Health Foundation Africa has the support of our Minister of Health and our Government. The vitamin programmes used are qualified as food and nutrition. As opposed to toxic ARV drugs, these programmes are safe because they are natural. Don't fall for the dirty tricks of the Drug Cartel: trust our Government and those who support it."
The state has never distanced itself from statements like this by Rath.
Despite several attacks on its alliance partner COSATU, the ANC has never condemned Rath.
In February 2008 TAC members met with the Provincial Minister of Health for Kwazulu-Natal, Ms Peggy Nkonyeni. They were astounded to find copies of Rath's book "End AIDS" in her waiting room. During the meeting, Nkonyeni kept a copy of Rath's book on her desk and at one point referred to it. Nkonyeni has made several pseudo-scientific comments about HIV. Kwazulu-Natal has more people with HIV than any other South African province.
Many people in South Africa still present far too late to the public health system, with advanced AIDS. Many patients try all kinds of alternative remedies before finally seeking help from their local clinics. Many never take the opportunity to live longer, healthier lives by using scientifically proven antiretroviral medicines because they are hoodwinked into trying unproven elixirs. Charlatans and quacks abound; some of the more notorious ones are Zeblon Gwala who distributes Ubhejane, Tine van der Maas who claims garlic and an African potato solution treat numerous diseases, Freddie Isaacs who distribute Comforters' Healing Gift and Stephen Leivers who distributes Secomet. In the centre of Cape Town and other cities, numerous unproven remedies are sold as cures for AIDS, including one called Ozone Rectal Therapy. The Minister of Health has fostered this situation by creating the illusion that people with HIV have a reasonable choice to make between antiretrovirals versus alternative remedies and by failing to enforce the Medicines Act.
Charlatans operate in every society, but they usually operate on the fringes. In South Africa, charlatanism has become mainstream. This case aims to establish that the Minister of Health has a duty to enforce the Medicines Act and to uphold the scientific governance of medicine. Her failure to enforce the act has hampered the rollout of antiretroviral treatment and resulted in many deaths.
We call on organisations concerned about access to health-care and the scientific governance of medicine to condemn the South African government's support of charlatans. Demand that the South African government settles the court case on the reasonable terms offered by TAC.
For details on Rath's wrongdoings and the case against him, go to:
Initiatives of the White house on overcoming of an economic crisis in the field of disarmament, non-distribution of the nuclear weapon, counteraction to terrorism, settlements in the Near East, in Afghanistan, on the Korean peninsula can be welcomed in the Kremlin. Scales of cooperation of Moscow and Washington have chance to extend. However collisions on the post-Soviet territory are inevitable. America movable by great-power ambitions, economic and geopolitical calculations, not begins to reject declarations of love and appeals to be on friendly terms from the party anti are Russian the adjusted elite of Georgia and Ukraine, any other Post-Soviet states. Russia never will reconcile in its vital space of the USA. This rivalry also will sadden first of all the Russian-American relations. The situation after all in something even is worse, than in cold war. Then Europe has been divided on two zones of influence, Moscow and Washington in another's "kitchen garden" did not climb, annoyed each other on periphery - in Congo, Yemen, Vietnam, etc. And nowadays the opposition line lies directly at the Russian borders. There is no reason to expect harmonisation and the American-Chinese relations. Though these two powers on many directions co-operate, nevertheless they remain contenders. And in steam of the China-USA Chineses are the coming party, they increase economic and military muscles, undermining domination of Americans in Asian-Pacific region. Two basic allies of Washington in Northeast Asia - Japan and South Korea already trade from the Peoples Republic of China more than with the United States, and are compelled to reckon in increasing degree with positions of Beijing. There are also other problems which will prevent to be reconstructed and strengthen to Americans the positions in the world. In the Near East, in Afghanistan, concerning Iran, Pakistan Washington should make of the decision which it is far not all will arrange, are fraught with aggravation of the Antiamerican moods in the world.
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NEWARK – An eye surgeon who allegedly submitted falsified eye examination reports so patients would qualify for funding for cataract surgery has been reprimanded by the State Board of Medical Examiners (B.M.E.) and will pay $80,000 in restitution to the N.J. Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Dr. Hitesh K. Patel will pay a $45,000 civil penalty and reimburse the state $50,000 for its investigative, legal and expert witness costs, in addition to the restitution. Patel also must attend and pass a course on record keeping, under terms of the Consent Order with the B.M.E.
Dr. Patel allegedly submitted false eye examination reports, which showed worse vision problems than patients actually had, to the commission in order to qualify for funding to perform cataract surgery. Patel neither admitted nor denied the state's allegations in entering into the Consent Order.
"Protecting the health, safety and welfare of the public is of paramount concern to our licensing boards," Attorney General Paula T. Dow said.
The inaccuracies in Patel's eye examination reports were confirmed when a second physician examined the same patients, as required by the commission.
"We will investigate any allegation of fraud, deception or misrepresentation, as these actions undermine the trust that is the foundation of the patient-physician relationship," said Thomas R. Calcagni, Acting Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Patel maintains an office in Edison and performed eye surgery at a facility in Hamilton Township, Mercer County.
Deputy Attorney General Kim D. Ringler represented the state in this settlement.
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Ryan Ray, an English teacher at Grant County High School, has earned a first diamond degree of membership in the National Forensic League.
Ray serves as the coach of Grant County High School speech and drama team.
On attaining a total of 1,500 points, coaches are entitled to wear a diamond-set NFL key or pin; additional diamonds accrue at 3,000, 6,000, 10,000 and each 3,000 points thereafter. The minimum time for each diamond is five years as an NFL member coach.
Q: Who qualifies for free or reduced lunch in the schools? How does this program work?
A: If your family is facing financial difficulties, your children may be eligible for free or reduced-cost meals at school. With today's economy, a rising number of students can qualify for meal assistance at school.
Members of the Friendship Foundation at Williamstown High School recently donated nearly $200 to the Grant County Special Olympics.The group gave 50 percent of the proceeds from a dance they held for middle school students.
Friendship Foundation, a student group at WHS, will be holding several other upcoming fundraisers, including an elementary school dance, to help raise $2,100 to participate in the Polar Bear Plunge in February in Lexington.
Kara Caldwell knows what it takes to be selected for a Youth Performance Award.
As a member of the YPA committee at Williamstown High School, the 18-year-old senior has helped choose among deserving nominees.
But, Caldwell was surprised to learn she had been picked as the December YPA winner.
"It feels pretty good," she said. "It means a lot. It means that I have the qualities that people say you need."
Ashley Tieman focuses her free time on helping others for no reason other than she feels like she's doing her part.
"If you're a part of a community, you need to do your part for the community," she said. "You need to always work to make your community a better place."
Because of her drive to help others, Tieman was named the Youth Performance Award Winner for November.
Tieman, a senior at Grant County High School, is the daughter of Harrison and Karen Unger of Dry Ridge.
The Mason-Corinth fifth grade classes took advantage of a program put on by the Cincinnati Reds and took a field trip to Great American Ball Park on Nov. 24.
The students learned about salary caps and how to build a team with the money provided.
They also received a tour of the home dugout, the press box and the Reds Studio.
On Nov. 7, the Grant County High School Speech and Drama Team traveled to Florence to compete in the second annual Boone County / Calloway County Swing Invitational Tournament.
In a swing tournament, two schools will host their own tournament simultaneously, allowing students the chance to compete in two different tournaments in one day.
Williamstown Independent Schools will soon be under construction.
The school board awarded a bid to Klenco Construction of Taylor Mill for a kitchen addition and roof renovation.
Klenco's bid of $1,418,000 in total construction costs was the lowest of 11 bids for the project.
"In spite of everything, it was a fabulous bid turnout and very competitive prices," said Margaret Jacobs of Tate Hill Jacobs Architects, designer of the project.
Both projects were included in the district's most recent facilities plan.
The Williamstown Band Boosters are now taking orders for fruit through Nov. 30. If you would like to place an order, contact Meleasa Sherman at 824-6460 or 468-5681 or any band booster member. All orders will be delivered the week of Dec. 14. All prices are the same as last year.
20lbs. oranges $19, 20lbs. ruby red grapefruit $19, 20lbs. mixed oranges and grapefruit $20; 23 to 25lbs. gift trio (12 apples, 12 oranges and 12 grapefruit) $30 and 23 to 25 lbs. citrus trio (12 tangelos, 12 oranges and 12 grapefruit) $25.
The community spoke and the Williamstown School Board listened.
After several people brought up the need for mentors for students at a recent community forum, the district immediately looked for solutions.
The school board recently approved $3,800 in funding for a program that will coach 20 volunteers on how to help students with reading struggles.
One to One: Practicing Reading with Students, a program of the Partnership at NewCities, is designed to help struggling readers through the use of a volunteer reading coach.
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Our department and departmental facilities are located in the Virgil Henson Activities Center. Students use highly specialized exercise testing equipment in the Human Performance Research Laboratory to gain an understanding and appreciation for the changes that the body goes through during all levels of exercise and human performance. The therapeutic modality and rehabilitation equipment in the Athletic Training Education Program Laboratory is used daily by students for instruction and clinical education in the Athletic Training Education Program. Our Athletic Training Education Program is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education. Our students also improve their knowledge of the skills and techniques for quality sport performance through use of many different assessment techniques, peer instruction activities, and computerized biomechanical analysis. Students have the opportunity to initiate or assist in research in sport psychology, sport nutrition, exercise science, and sport performance.
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